Coastal Ventures: A consulting firm dedicated to fostering growth in small companies.
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The company describes favorite places that feel like a second living room and shares images of one near its home in Carmel Valley.
My prompt: Write a two-paragraph blog post on using GPT for blogging
With whatever weird analogical reasoning as may be going on in my head, I think of Tumblr as the online equivalent of Park Slope. I've opened up an outpost there.
The page argues that candidates should be asked to describe something great they made happen and explain why they could do the same at the company.
Just a short note to friends following this blog.
Sometime around 1988 or so my boss at the time, and then president of the company, Ray Martino, decided that he needed to bring in a seasoned sales and marketing leader to help take Symbol to the next level.
The company describes itself as generally uptown-oriented and recounts a weekend visit to lower Manhattan by the author and Ellie.
The company recounts a meeting with John, the contractor who renovated its house in Carmel Valley, before its move. John and his crew worked on the renovation for 14 months.
Travel of this sort is not at all about movement from A to B, or principally about the pleasures of the diversions along the way. (Note: they have been very nice however.)
The company introduces observations from a time it describes as paradise.
The page says Myanmar has three seasons—summer, rainy, and winter—and that the author visited during summer.
The page discusses the author's decision to record thoughts regularly and consider what guides the choice of subjects.
The author studied computer science and began working as an engineer, while focusing on how businesses create, protect, and leverage value. This interest and technology background shaped the author's career.
The author describes creative work in writing, photography, video, and curating others’ work as adding value through artifacts or insights.
Coastal Ventures, LLC is an advisory firm, formed and operated by Richard Bravman, its General Partner, in 2004 to serve as a business platform for his various Board, Advisory, and Management projects. It is a Delaware corporation, with offices in southern CT.
The page describes the GPT series from OpenAI as advanced AI language models and says they have changed content creation in recent years.